Life, 1923-04-05 · page 10 of 40
Life — April 5, 1923 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains an article about the 1923 baseball season's prospects, discussing players like "Pop" Weevil and "Deadshot" Schultz, with optimism about the coming season despite Judge Landis's recent strict enforcement actions. The cartoon below depicts three rural men—a country doctor (center), a fisherman (left), and a rustic figure (right)—in conversation. The doctor mentions catching "a perfect beauty, eight and a half pound" fish, and the fisherman corrects him, asking whether it was actually "a rainbow or a germanbrown?" This is a **humorous rural/fishing joke**: the fisherman is pedantically fact-checking the doctor's fish story, suggesting the doctor misidentified the species—a gentle satire of both tall-tale telling and know-it-all corrections common in small-town interactions.
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ROM where we park our type- writer, it certainly looks as if baseball during the approaching, or 1923, season were going to achieve a measure of success unparalleled in the annals of the “national game.” And this despite the fact that Judge Landis will, in all probability, wear that same trick hat of his. On cool days, it is feared, he may even bring out his sweater. Nevertheless, the players are all signing up, and each manager is preparing his annual statement to the effect that his club is the logical win- ner of the pennant this year. Even the usual investigations of game throwing, buck passing, and similar pastimes of some of the players will have no apparent effect on the total attendance figures. A preliminary survey of the situation in the Na- tional and American Leagues dis- closes the fact that all the old stand- - LIFE - The Baseball Outlook bys will be standing by when the umpires step to the plate in the open- ing games and announce, “Ladeesn- genlmum! Braystodazgamelblurblur- bmmgrmfplayball !” It is a safe bet already that “Pop” Weevil will be found holding down his usual position in Seat 27, Row A, Sec. 15, which circumstance alone should have a distinctly help- ful effect on the morale of the Yankees. “Pop,” it will be remem- bered, was the originator and first user of the remark that did so much to inspire his particular section of the grandstand last season, when “Babe” Ruth would fail to connect for a home, sweet home run: “Yah! You don’t need a home run! What you need is to run home!” When de- livered with “Pop’s” full mezzo- soprano, the effect was little short of devastating; even when not full, his delivery was almost as powerful. Mr. Weevil’s vocal cords have been kept in splendid condition all winter by cheering at Six-Day Bike Races, and he should take the field in top form. a Then there is “Deadshot” Schultze of the St. Louis aggregation, the un- disputed champion pop-bottle throw- er of the Middle West. His score last season was 3 players and 4 um- pires (2 of which were perfect put- outs), and 1 assist, when he picked up a bottle thrown from far back in the stand, and relayed it to the home- plate just in time to catch the run- ner. With any sort of luck, he should do even better this year. Cleveland has been full of gossip that the Mulrooney brothers would enlarge their milk route to such an extent this spring and summer that it would be impossible for them to get back to town in time for the ajfter- (Continued on page 33) Country Doctor (to rustic): _A perfect beauty, eight and a half pound. Fisherman (listening in); Beg pardon, but was that a rainbow or a géermanbrown? comicbooks.com